Vidarbha Statutory Development Board (VSDB),Vidharbha Vaidhanik Vikas Mandal (Nagpur)

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The main work of VSDB is to address the backlog of Vidarbha region. The government sanctions grants to the VSDB for this purpose. The government had scrapped the earlier method of calculating backlog and appointed Kelkar committee to determine regional imbalance in the state. However, as no backlog exists on paper today VSDB does not have anything to do.
Apparently, as VSDB does not have any work presently, government has deprived it of the officers. The post of joint secretary, who looks after day to day working of the board, is lying vacant after the incumbent officer retired. The member secretary Richa Bagla has been transferred and is now holding this post as an additional charge.
VSDB member Madhukar Kimmatkar, one of the leading experts on Vidarbha's backlog, suspects that politicians of Western Maharashtra are not cooperating with the committee. "They were dead against its constitution as they know that once regional imbalance data is available Vidarbha and Marathwada will get more funds," he alleged.